Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1915 — Leo Reeve’s Residence Slightly Damaged by Fire. [ARTICLE]

Leo Reeve’s Residence Slightly Damaged by Fire.

The fire company was called out about 9:30 yesterday morning by a blaze at the home of Leo Reeve, at the west side of town. The fire was extinguished with a loss of probably hot to exceed SSO. The kitchen range, it seems, sits quite close to the wall, and a broom and some other articles between the wall and range caught fire and burned through the floor and thence up the side between the plastering and weather boarding, starting a blaze that soon would have destroyed the entire house. No one was at home at the time, Mrs. Reeve having built up a fire and then gone to the home of Ed Reeve, where they are staying most of the time while Mrs. Reeve is’in the hospital in Chicago. The household goods were all removed when the fire company reached the scene. -